Today is my 20th anniversary of blogging. I wrote my first blog post on September 8, 2006, on my blog “Filter & Splice,” which is on the Blogger platform. Filter & Splice still exists in all its pink and green glory. It reminds me of a watermelon. When I started blogging, I never thought I’d still be at it 20 years, and multiple blogs, later. I blogged at Filter & Splice for just over…
Just call me “Jill-ohnny Come Lately.” I finally got around to reading Kevin Kwan’s “Crazy Rich Asians” and I loved it. The copyright date is 2013 and it’s been made into “A Major Motion Picture,” as my second-hand, thrift store copy announces from the cover. It takes time to make major motion pictures, and while I’ve heard of the movie, I haven’t yet seen it. I wonder if I will like it as much as…
Today is Flag Day in the United States. I thought it was Father’s Day, but that’s next weekend. My days are all messed up with working from home because they just run into one another. I can see why holidays are so important for marking time. I don’t typically pay much attention to Flag Day, but as circumstance would have it, I was thinking about the U.S. flag a couple of days ago. Here was…